Sorcerers view any kind of activity with people,
no matter how minute or unimportant, as a battlefield. In that battlefield,
sorcerers performed their best magic, their best effort. The trick to
being at ease in such situations is to face our opponents openly. Abhorrent
are the timid souls who shy away from interaction to the point where even
though they interact, they merely infer or deduce, in terms of their own
psychological states, what is going on without actually perceiving what
is really going on. They interact without ever being part of the interaction.

Always look at the man who is involved in a tug of war with you. Don't
just pull the rope; look up and see his eyes. You'll know then that he
is a man, just like you. No matter what he's saying, no matter what he's
doing, he's shaking in his boots, just like you. A look like that renders
the opponent helpless, if only for an instant; deliver your blow then.

When the sorcerers talk about the cognitive world of ancient Mexico they
are talking about things for which we have no equivalent in the world
of everyday life.